on April 9th, 2012%
We’re joining in with TinkerLab’s Creative Challenge today with an egg carton treasure box make-over. As soon as Rachelle laid down her challenge to see what we could make with egg boxes my girls were united and divided. Both wanted to make treasure boxes, but each with a very different style to match their individual passions. My princess-loving 5yr old made a treasure box fit for the crown jewels, while my adventurous 9-year-old went for a pirate box. Here’s how they transformed their egg cartons.
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on April 3rd, 2012%
These painted Easter eggs are a great kids’ art idea for spring. Each as unique as the artist who made them, they look even better in a colourful mix and match group. Here’s how to make them:
on March 29th, 2012%
 This month’s Kids Art Explorers project is all about trying out painting – but with no paint brushes allowed. This week we set up a No Pain Brush Paint Station and went on a hunt to see what we could find around the house that might be good to paint with. The children found some great stuff. They discovered lots of different shapes and textures and were excited to be painting with things they considered rather daring!
I’m so thrilled that lots of you are joining in with the Kids Art Explorers project and trying out alternative ways to paint. Here’s what we used in our paint station and another opportunity at the end to check out all the great art the other Explorers have been making.
Kids painting station: no paint brushes allowed!
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on March 27th, 2012%
Looking for a kids Easter bunny craft idea? Here are five different ideas you might like to try – all easy to do and all super cute!
Easter bunny craft #1: rabbit mask
Here’s an idea from my colleague Lesley, which we used at creche this week.
Cut out a rabbit face shape from a piece of card, with lovely big bunny ears. Provide pink noses and ear shapes, black wool for whiskers and black pens or pencils for drawing on eyes. Invite the children to glue, stick and draw to make their own bunny rabbit craft. You could turn this into a mask too – punch eye holes and attach an elastic thread at the sides and the children can wear their creations. Read more »
on March 22nd, 2012%
 The Kids Art Explorers project this month is enjoying a No Paint Brushes Allowed challenge. We’re trying out lots of different ways to use paint and inviting you to join in. The NurtureStore children have been hunting through our art and craft cupboard to find different materials they think will be great to paint with. We also have lots of other blogs joining in the project and you can see some of the amazing art they’ve been creating below. But first, here’s what we created when we tried painting with drinking straws.
Painting with drinking straws
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on March 20th, 2012%
Ever tried cotton bud art? We’ve used them before when we tried some pointillism and our current Facebook page photo was created by swirling cotton buds through paint but this week we’ve been using cotton buds by themselves to see what pictures we could make.
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